Difficulties of Learning English for Specific Purposes: The Case of Law Faculty Students

Bingol, Mustafa and Bilgin, Recep (2024) Difficulties of Learning English for Specific Purposes: The Case of Law Faculty Students. PROCEEDINGS OF 8th INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ISSUES CONFERENCE.

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Abstract

English for specific purposes is a term that was introduced for the teaching of English in professional fields, especially after World War II. Accordingly, English for legal purposes aims to teach the indented terms of English in the field of law. Therefore, just as the curriculum has been developed for these purposes, books have also been designed. However, there are some difficulties in teaching this aspect of English specific to professionals. In order to determine what these difficulties are, a Likert scale survey was conducted to students of the Faculty of Law studying at Tishk International University. Student complaints and teachers’ suggestions were taken into account when determining the points where students had difficulty and placing them in the questionnaire. This survey, classified accordingly, was conducted on 103 students and the results were evaluated with the inferential statistics method. As a result, it has been observed that students have difficulty in learning legal English, especially because the legal language of English is quite different and does not correspond to their own practices at many points.

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